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The UK’s Competitions And Markets Authority (CMA) has found that Microsoft‘s proposed £50billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard is not likely to cause a “substantial lessening” of competition between consoles in…

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Gaming

“Microsoft Cancels ‘Redfall’ PS5 Version, Claims Arkane Director”

March 23, 2023

Arkane Studios director Harvey Smith has claimed that the company was working on a PS5 version of upcoming vampire shooter Redfall, but it was cancelled when Microsoft acquired parent company…

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Technology

“Outlook for Mac now available for free without Office or Microsoft 365”

March 8, 2023

Enlarge / The current Outlook for Mac email client. Microsoft Update, 4:36pm: Microsoft has updated its post to indicate that the “ground up” redesign coming for the Mac version of Outlook…

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Technology

Microsoft enables ChatGPT to bring real world accessibility through Robots

March 5, 2023

Microsoft Last week, Microsoft researchers announced an experimental framework to control robots and drones using the language abilities of ChatGPT, a popular AI language model created by OpenAI. Using natural…

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Technology

Microsoft Unveils AI Model for Image Understanding and Visual Puzzle-Solving

March 2, 2023

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of an electronic brain with an eyeball. Ars Technica On Monday, researchers from Microsoft introduced Kosmos-1, a multimodal model that can reportedly analyze images for…

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Technology

Chatbot Disasters: Bing and Google

February 19, 2023

Last week, both Microsoft and Google announced that they would incorporate AI programs similar to ChatGPT into their search engines—bids to transform how we find information online into a conversation…

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Technology

Fans Unhappy After Microsoft “Lobotomizes” AI-Powered Bing Chat

February 18, 2023

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Microsoft’s new AI-powered Bing Chat service, still in private testing, has been in the headlines for its wild and erratic outputs. But that era has…

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Technology

Microsoft Forcibly Removing Internet Explorer from Windows 10 PCs

February 15, 2023

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 was never Windows 10’s primary browser—that would be the old, pre-Chromium version of Microsoft Edge. But IE did continue to ship with Windows 10 for compatibility…

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Gaming

Activision Boss Accuses Sony of ‘Sabotaging’ Microsoft Acquisition Bid

February 13, 2023

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has accused Sony of “trying to sabotage” Microsoft’s attempted acquisition bid. Last year, Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard in a deal that cost approximately £50billion ($68billion…

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Technology

“Experience the AI Revolution”

February 10, 2023

Welcome to the week of AI one-upmanship. On Tuesday, in a surprise announcement, Microsoft unveiled its plans to bring the technology behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT bot to its search engine, Bing.…

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